Manual negative pressure dressing-Webster's Dressing

Abstract

Vacuum therapy is an effective way to treat complex open wounds. Today, most of the equipment is very expensive to provide widespread use of this therapy and, most of them, are designed to in-patient use. Also, there are difficulties to obtain the needed materials in the same package for specific use of treating open wounds, which causes delay in the treatment. We designed a kit that is cost-effective and ready-to-use to be used with Jackson-Pratt or Portovac style suction drains that allows a cheap, out-patient alternative for use in open-wound situations. We devise that this system could be used in emergency situations where there is a hostile environment such as natural catastrophes, war and emergency situations, as well as to regular in and out-patient wound care.

1 : The isolated elements needed in the dressing should be offered as a ready-to-use kit that will allow a easy way to deal with complex open wounds. This action will allow a widespread use of a cost-effective vacuum dressing, as above stated, mainly in the out-patient regimen. The main purpose of this kit is to be distributed with or as a complimentary part of Jackson-Pratt or Portovac style suction drains, specifically.
 a: The kit must provide parts in diverse dimensions and forms, according the nature of the wound.   b: The kit must contain adapters to the most common devices already in use to provide the vacuum source.   c: the foam design must include within it a channel of proper dimensions to adapt into it the tube originated from the vacuum source. The foam should be made prefereably with open cell technology.   d: The outer plastic adhesive sheet must have extra stregth to prevent air leaks specificallly for the presented purpose of treat open wounds.   e: The kit must contain a waist bag to provide easy portability of the manual pump.